hard drive trouble

[trisshep]

Hi can anyone help im trying to switch my hard drive to dma but everytime i tick the box in properties and restart the pc it gone back to non dma any suggestions would be most appreciated.

[mjc]

Need a little more info, some motherboards/chipsets don't support the DMA function for hard drives...post back with system info (motherboard/chipset, CPU etc).

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[trisshep]

sorry im running on a sis chipset on the k7s5a motherboard i think it supports dma because it lets me put the cd drives in dma

[mjc]

Yeah, it does.....or should.

What OS?



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[iisbob]

The question here is not wether the motherboard supports DMA ( as i have the same one and i can garauntee it does support DMA ), but wether your harddrive can support DMA-if it's an older one ( 4 years or > ) it may not support direct memory management, it can actually cause it too slow down.

post back with your hard drive make/model and we'll see what we can do from there.



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iisbob

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[trisshep]

not sure of the model number but i no it a seagate 20gb and its only 6 months old